347. Contemporary African American Fiction
This course is a study of humor in modern and contemporary African American fiction. Borrowing the Freudian concept of wit, we will examine selected literary treatments of racialism in America. Novels include George Schuyler's Black No More, Wesley Brown's Darktown Strutters, Charles Johnson's Middle Passage, Dorothy West's The Living is Easy and Andrea Lee's Sarah Phillips.
Limited to junior and senior English majors and minors.
(Deyonne Bryant)